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Setup a brand new RBR850 with two satellites this week
I am having the exact same problem. Setup a brand new RBR850 with two satellites this week (purchased directly from Netgear). Setup went perfectly and I could access the web page (I'm in AP mode so i...
It immediately routes me to https://www.netgear.com/home/services/orbilogin/.
The Orbi is serving up WiFi for my entire home (the FIOS router has WiFi disabled). But, since the router is configured via AP, the FIOS router is serving up the IP address and allows the wired and WiFi devices to co-mingle - my home network is about 30% wired and 70% wifi.
Thanks for doing that test. The way orbilogin.netresolves to the local IP address of the Orbi router is a feature of the DNS resolver built into the Orbi. Rather than send the request upstream to the DNS authority, the Orbi router says, "aha. They want ME." and returns its own IP address.
This result would seem to indicate that the DNS lookup did not go through the Orbi router, but rather went through FIOS, which may have a similar feature for AT&T, but certainly will not recognize orbilogin.net as being special.
And this happens with a computer wired directly to the RBR850?